Ivy on Ιουνίου 14th, 2011

Hi all. I’m going to be taking a hiatus…for an undertermined amount of time. The past weeks I’ve been feeling a bit stressed, tired and depressed, so I’ve decided to take a break and rest but also make a few changes in my life.  For a start I’ve cut my hair and I’ve decided to [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 12th, 2011

Another Creative Concoctions Event has come to an end with a little disappointment to see only a few entries. Elais -Unilever Hellas, has been very generous offering lots of olive oil to send worldwide and I wish to thank them for this. The word creative may have probably scared a few lot away but this [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 12th, 2011

A few days ago I visited my friend Marianna at her house and ate this wonderful Orange Cake.  Marianna told me that she had eaten this cake somewhere else and she asked for the recipe.  They gave her the recipe but the recipe had three whole oranges, including the peels, olive oil, sugar,  eggs, I [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 11th, 2011

Have you ever considered making your own liqueurs? It’s very easy to make and like anything else homemade it tastes fantastic. Apart from making jams and spoon sweets with fruit, the other thing I love making is liqueurs. The method may vary depending on what fruit you are using but the general idea is to [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 9th, 2011

The summer is here for good and we’ve been having high temperatures.  The financial situation, the politics and the corruption of all Greek Governments in the last decades were catastrophic and we had no idea about it.  Suddenly those imbeciles, who have been stealing the people and who have been eating with golden spoons have [...]

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Ivy on Ιουνίου 5th, 2011

Did I ever mention how much I love desiccated coconut?  Well, I do and when I went to an Asian store a couple of months back, I bought a large packet, which was much cheaper than the ones we get in supermarkets, so I have been using it in a lot of my recipes, which [...]

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Greece has a tradition in fishery since ancient times.   If you take a look of Greece οn the map you will see thousands of kilometres of coastline and only our Northern borders are not surrounded by sea but even there, fishery was part of their occupation as they would fish in lakes and rivers. [...]

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